[Dovecot] messages downloading repeatedly to mozilla/seamonkey pop3 client

[Ben Julian]

Timo and Mark,
  It appears that my problem was due to our configuration of the
user's several home directories - we had different usernames created
for this individual, but two of the home directory definitions in
/etc/passwd were unintentionally pointing to the same place, causing
the dovecot index files to overwrite each other.  We never caught it
before using pop3d, because they don't keep index A silly mistake.
Sorry to bother you and the mailing list with this - clearly user
error. :)
Thanks for all your help!
Ben

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Ben Julian <ben.julian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Timo,
>  Wow, thanks for checking back on this after all that time. I am
> actually still having problems, and just working around them by using
> a script to manually wipe out the inbox and index files for the user
> with the problem.  I tried your suggestion of explicitly setting the
> mailbox location.  It didn't seem to stop the problem, but it is hard
> to reproduce on demand.  By sending the user a lot of forwarded mail,
> I was able to reproduce the issue once.  I left it defined and tried
> Mark Sapiro's suggestion, adding " pop3_lock_session = yes", and so
> far, so good.  I won't really know until a few days of use have
> passed.  I'll be sure to let the list know how it turns out.  Thanks
> for the follow up, guys, totally unexpected.
> -Ben
>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Do you still have this problem? You could try setting mail_location
>> explicitly to see if it changes anything
>> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation).
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:25 -0400, Ben Julian wrote:
>>> Timo,
>>>   The user can't access the mailbox directly under normal use
>>> circumstances.  He doesn't have a smb share setup to allow him access
>>> to the mbox file.  As far as I know, the only program besides dovecot
>>> doing editing of the mail is spamassassin, but that happens before the
>>> mail is written to the mbox.  Perhaps I am misunderstanding your
>>> question?
>>> -Ben
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:17 -0500, Ben Julian wrote:
>>> >  > Mar  3 10:37:00 servername dovecot: POP3(user): mbox sync: UID
>>> >  > inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/user (84873 > 84872,
>>> >  > seq=2, idx_msgs=3)
>>> >
>>> >  This is the main problem, these shouldn't happen. Can the user access
>>> >  the mailboxes directly?
>>> >
>>> >  See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxProblems
>>> >
>>
>